"Germany benefits ..."
"Germany profits..."Whenever politics and the media run out of arguments, it's short and sweet to say,"Germany benefits..."
•
from globalization,
• the free trade areas,
• the free trade agreements,
• of the EU,
• the euro,
• the cheap flood of money
• the dependence on exports,
• immigration,
• the Schengen Agreement (open borders)
With the silly propaganda slogans, trained rhetoric experts actually succeed in actually preventing the population from thinking independently and convincing successes that are not. Unless it is already considered a success if other EU countries are worse off than us. Because they suffer more from duty-free trade (wage dumping) than we do. The failure of others thus becomes the yardstick for our apparent success - such a view seems to me more than pitiful.
The fact is:
Real
wages have been falling since 1980 and tripled the unemployment
figures!
Whether Germany will really benefit from the arbitrary powers of its
politicians (customs reduction, EU transfer union, euro) is shown
above all by the development of inflation-adjusted net wages and
pensions. And these figures are unambiguous: despite the benevolent
technological innovations and the doubling of productivity,
even in our "export wonderland" things are still only going
downhill.In my opinion, the slogans "Germany profits..." can hardly
be topped by cheekiness and audacity.
It
is a question of preventing overdue reforms!
What is intended to be achieved by permanent national dulling ("We
are doing well after all!", "Germany profits...") is obvious:
Overdue
fundamental reforms should be avoided!
The global players, corporations and speculators have huge lobbying
power and defend their fortunes. They are the true rulers and leaders
of Western democracies.
It is therefore with great enthusiasm held fast to outdated dogmas and world economic heresies. The dismantling of customs duties, which is forcing the world into merciless wage and tax competition and is now even triggering migratory movements of peoples, is still praised, despite all the evidence to the contrary, as being beneficial and "promoting prosperity". Nothing is being done to break the omnipotence of the corporations and the breathtaking monopoly trend!
Fear
of the economic competence of citizens?
The population must become more critical if it is to stop the further
march of big business. Objective information and education is the
appropriate means of combating the widespread united front of big
business, exports, politics and the media.
The hypocritical media coverage of the supposed shortage
of skilled workers,
the benefits of duty-free trade, the EU and the euro must finally be
offset by the unvarnished empirical values of the last three decades!
Unfair propaganda belongs to the pillory and must not be constantly
prayed. So that more reason, logic and reason can be argued in
politics as well.
The
cumulative competence of the leading economic experts from
politics and media has yielded the following results so
far: Since
1980 •
real wages in Germany and most other high-wage countries
have fallen by around 15%, •
in Germany, the inflation-adjusted net pensions have been
reduced by about 30 %, •
the number of official unemployed in Germany has almost
tripled despite all the outright successes of the bogus job
market, •
the secret, hidden unemployment has reached gigantic
proportions •
temporary, precarious jobs have almost become
standard, •
the volume of harmful and hostile shift and night work has
tripled, •
has tripled the number of environmentally harmful trucks in
Germany (although living standards are
falling), •
the public debt in many EU countries has almost
exploded, •
It seems that the economy in the western world can only be
kept up to date by a glut of cheap money. Anyone
who records all these developments as successes can be
satisfied with the policy pursued to date and with the
economic expertise demonstrated so far. However,
anyone who is dissatisfied with the outcome of the political
decisions taken since 1980, who wonders why technological
progress has not had a positive impact on prosperity since
1980, should perhaps no longer blindly trust the appeasing
propaganda slogans ("we are doing well, Germany is
benefiting...") and
dare to take a different view of
things. The book
"THE CAPITAL and globalisation" clears up many fatal
prejudices. The book does not put forward bold theses, but
points out the functioning of the global economy point by
point. This in-depth analysis inevitably leads to the right
conclusions for necessary corrections and interventions
to put an end to the destructive global wage and tax
dumping and return to a fair, social market
economy.
Excuse
me!
There is no equality of opportunity - even when it comes to forming
opinions. While the capital (corporations, speculators, lobbyists,
media, governments) can afford the best translators, I have to settle
for a simple language program for financial reasons. I hope, however,
that the text is nevertheless reasonably understandable and that no
major mistakes have occurred. Thank you for your understanding.
Manfred Julius Müller, 24939 Flensburg (Flensburg has approx.
90,000 inhabitants and lies on the German-Danish
border)
My
websites are absolutely non-partisan and
independent!
They
are not sponsored by state institutions, global
players, corporations, associations, parties, unions, aid
organizations, NGOs, the EU or capital lobby, hyped by google or
influenced by the cancel culture movement! They are also free of
advertising and fees.
Background
and analysis:
• German
Political Encyclopedia: independent &
non-partisan
• Do
doctored statistics and state propaganda form the basis of our
democracy?
• Poverty
research: Which countries with high birth rates are really doing
well?
•
The
infiltration of democracy by the Cancel Culture movement
…
•
The
nasty tricks of the anti-democrats!
•
The
taming of capitalism!
The capitalist Reformation! 42 theses for a fairer world!
•
Causes
and consequences of global economic
crisis
• In
Germany wages have been falling since 1980.
Why?
• Germany:
The brazen proclamation of skills
shortage!
• Globalization:
the ignorance of the facts
• The
political and economic consequences of an
brexit
An
analytical consideration from German
view.
• "We
have to explain Europe better!"
• When
will the Dexit? (the withdrawal of Germany from the
EU)
© Manfred J. Müller, Flensburg, Dezember 2012, Nachtrag Mai/Juni 2016
Manfred J. Müller has been analyzing global economic processes for 40 years. He is considered a pioneering thinker. For example, 20 years ago he called for a kind of supply chain law that obliges manufacturers and dealers to only import fairly remunerated and produced goods to Germany (finally became law in May 2021). He has also long recommended a minimum profits tax for large companies on domestic sales (Joe Biden's proposal for a global minimum profits tax in spring 2021 is finally moving in the same direction, but is far too lame and will hardly be implemented internationally). Manfred J. Müller has also been fighting for his idea of wage cost reform for three decades (gradual reduction of social security contributions with counter-financing through value added tax and customs duties).
Through
decades of brainwashing, the corporate lobby has succeeded
in making radical ideologies a matter of course! A
critical look behind the scenes of political
machinations:
Through
an army of loyal politicians and sympathetic journalists and
the superiority of their opinion factories, system-owned
economic institutes producing desired statistics, etc., they
have brought about social changes and laws that only serve
their special interests. This can be seen, for example, in
the development of earned income (real net wages and
pensions have been falling in Germany since 1980) on the one
hand and the gigantic jumps in profits on the other (such as
with shares and dividends). Should it always go on like
this?
The
dreaded books by Manfred Julius
Müller...